Emily combines her passions for animals, cultural anthropology and exploration as a conservation travel writer at Natural Habitat Adventures. As a part of the editorial team, she aims to be a voice for wildlife and has traveled to 100+ UNESCO World Heritage Sites across six continents seeking stories.

During her childhood in Seattle, Washington, Emily developed a deep love for the natural world while horseback riding through wildflower meadows in the Cascades, hiking past waterfalls in Olympic National Park's Hoh Rainforest, kayaking between islands with bioluminescent beaches, skiing in Bavarian-inspired Leavenworth and building fairy houses by the cherry tree in her mother's garden, in view of Mt. Rainer. After writing an essay on green sea turtles in 5th grade and coming face to face with one in Hawaii later that year, Emily discovered the wonder of travel and has since explored more than 30 countries across North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. 

At 16, she traveled to Ecuador and the Galapagos for a wildlife conservation and photography student expedition with National Geographic. Eager to continue studying animals and world cultures, she spent a gap semester focused on wildlife conservation and photography in South Africa and Zimbabwe. She then traveled through five countries in Southeast Asia, exploring the wonders of Angkor Wat and thousands of golden stupas in Myanmar while staying with local Hill Tribes and in floating villages.

Emily graduated from Colorado College with a degree in anthropology. She spent a month with the Colville Confederated Tribes in Eastern Washington pursuing research for her thesis on traditional foodways and Indigenous environmental education. She took courses in Italy and India where she wrote about culture, cuisine and folklore, studied primate behavior at the Lemur Conservation Foundation and completed a wildlife rehabilitation internship at the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica. While a student, she traveled with her family to France's castle-filled Loire Valley, explored England's Regency past and wandered through Japan's historic mountain villages. Following graduation in 2017, Emily spent a summer as an environmental educator at the Denver Zoo before landing her dream job at Natural Habitat Adventures.

Natural Habitat Adventures combines Emily's passions for wildlife, writing and travel. She has since traveled with Nat Hab aboard the real-life Hogwarts Express in the Scottish Highlands and explored fairy realms on the Isle of Skye, to the far North in search of polar bears, to Mexico's volcanic highlands to stand among millions of butterflies during the monarch migration and to Tanzania, where she met the Maasai, explored the Ngorongoro Crater and came face to face with lounging leopards, feasting cheetahs and the Great Migration in the vast Serengeti. She also joined an Australia safari to Tasmania, Kangaroo Island & the Great Ocean Road, encountering echidnas, tiger quolls and koalas along the way. When she's not writing, exploring the world or working with animals, you can find Emily reading fantasy or historical fiction (especially Harry Potter, ACOTAR, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pride & Prejudice), enjoying ballets and musicals, horseback riding, going on wildflower walks, visiting UK National Trusts and living history museums, finding vegetarian delicacies and collecting cookbooks, and gardening and greeting baby animals on the wool farm where she lives with her husband and black cat (and donkeys, lambs, goats, horses, cows, sheepdogs, peacocks and many fireflies) in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Emily's travels so far include England (the Cotswolds, Bath's Jane Austen Festival, the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, Windsor, London, Oxfordshire, Highclere, the Peak District & Derbyshire), Italy (Campania {Amalfi Coast—Positano, Ravello, Minori, Maiori, Atrani, Praiano, Amalfi, Furore, Montepertuso, Nocelle, Agerola, Scala, Sorrento and Vico Equense—Procida, Capri, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Mount Vesuvius, Royal Palace of Caserta, Naples, Paestum} Liguria {Cinque Terre, Porto Venere, Tellaro, Lerici, San Terenzo, Portofino, San Fruttuoso, Genoa, La Spezia}, Tuscany {Florence, Lucca, San Gimignano, Siena, Pisa}, Lazio {Rome, Vatican City, Sperlonga}, Sicily {Agrigento, Taormina, Syracuse, Palermo, Selinunte, Segesta, Morgantina, Marsala}), Greece (Paros, Santorini, Athens, Naxos, Koufonisia, Ios, Mykonos, Antiparos), Switzerland (Lauterbrunnen Valley, Lake Brienz, Geneva), France (the Loire Valley's Chateau de Chenonceau, Chambord & Cheverny, Provence, Marseille, Paris, Versailles, Chamonix), Scotland (Isle of Skye, Edinburgh, Dunrobin Castle, Inverness, Moray Firth, Glen Shiel, Loch Ness, Glenfinnan Viaduct aboard the Jacobite Steam Train, Mallaig, the Outer Hebrides—Isle of Harris, Shiant Isles, Isle of Lewis's Callanish Standing Stones), Hungary (Budapest), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Tanzania (Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire, Arusha), South Africa (Zululand, Lake St. Lucia), Zimbabwe, India (Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai), Japan (Kyoto, Shirakawa-go, Nara, Takayama, Tokyo & Studio Ghibli), Vanuatu (islands of Ambrym, Espiritu Santo, Moso), the Solomon Islands (Owaraha, Honiara), New Zealand (Hobbiton, Waitomo Glowworm Caves, Bay of Islands, Auckland), Australia (Tasmania, Kangaroo Island, Great Ocean Road, Norfolk Island, Brisbane's Koala Sanctuary), New Caledonia, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Ecuador (Mindo Cloud Forest, Cotopaxi, Quito) and the Galapagos Islands (Santa Cruz, Isabela, San Cristobal), Costa Rica (Jaguar Rescue Center), El Salvador, Mexico (Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico City, Valle de Bravo), the U.S. (from the 40 states she has visited, highlights include Kauai, Maui, Hawaii's Big Island, Big Sur, Martha's Vineyard, 16 national parks, 16 living history museums and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter), Canada (British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba) and the Arctic (Churchill: Polar Bear Capital of the World).

Her future travel dreams include tracking gorillas in Bwindi's rainforest, exploring Germany's castles, Christmas markets and the Fairy Tale Route, perusing the library of Austria's Admont Abbey, reconnecting with her redhead roots on horseback in Ireland, strolling through Green Gables on Prince Edward Island, returning again and again to the Cotswolds, Amalfi Coast, Loire Valley, Swiss Alps and Greek Islands, marveling at Italy's Lake Como, the Dolomites, Puglia, Piedmont, Sardinia and Verona, sojourning in Scandinavia, mermaiding in Bora Bora, watching wild cats in Botswana and joining an India safari to track tigers, eat her favorite cuisine and gaze at the Taj Mahal.

Emily's favorite place is England! Places she's visited include:

The Cotswolds: Bourton-on-the-Water, Kelmscott Manor, Clapton-on-the-Hill, Chipping Campden (Hidcote Manor), Broadway (Broadway Tower), Snowshill, Stanton, Stanway, Winchcombe, Guiting Power, Upper and Lower Slaughter, Nauton, Kingham, Stow-on-the-Wold, Morton-in-Marsh (Sezincote House), Blockley, Broad Campden, Minster Lovell, Widford, Swinbrook, Asthall, Burford, Bibury, Chedworth Roman Villa, Cirencester, Tetbury (Highgrove Gardens), Painswick, Gloucester Cathedral, Slad, Minchinhampton Common, Lacock, Castle Combe, Dyrham Park, Sudeley Castle, Corsham, Bradford-on-Avon, Monkton Farleigh, Kingswood, Box, Chastleton House, Bath (for the 250th Anniversary Jane Austen Festival!)
Peak District & Derbyshire: Chatsworth House (from Pride & Prejudice), Bakewell, Lyme Park, Haddon Hall, Tissington Hall, Dovedale, Baslow, Sherwood Forest, Hardwick Hall, Edensor, Ashford-in-the-Water, Peveril Castle, Castleton, Hayfield
Lake District: Lake Windermere, Hawkshead, Appleby Castle, Tarn Hows, Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top, Ambleside, Grasmere, Keswick
London: Hampton Court Palace, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Hyde Park (for Bridgerton & Flower Fairies teas), Kew Gardens, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, The British Museum, V&A Museum, The Royal Ballet (Cinderella), Shakespeare's Globe (A Midsummer Night's Dream), West End, The National Gallery, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Borough Market, Palace of Westminster, Churchill War Rooms, Sir John Soane's Museum, Covent Garden's Christmas Angels, House of MinaLima, Daunt Books, The Making of Harry Potter London
Oxfordshire, Yorkshire Dales, Hampshire & Berkshire: Blenheim Palace, Oxford, Swinton Park, Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey), Windsor Castle